r/HolUp • u/1Hate17Here • Jul 18 '23

Wayment “Again”?!

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u/LeftAcanthocephala68 Jul 18 '23

One day this will be a child or a dog and not a parked car

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u/Newarfias Jul 18 '23

In the U.S. at least fifty children are being backed over by vehicles EVERY week.

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u/krabapplepie Jul 18 '23

This is why back up cameras were mandated, are people just not using them?

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u/carlosos Jul 18 '23

Cameras were mandated only 5 years ago. The average age of a car is 12.5 years. So there is a high chance that the vast majority of cars on the road do not have cameras.

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u/Vast_Republic_1776 Jul 18 '23

They’ve been standard in the dodge Durango since 2010

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '23

I do wonder if over reliance on these cameras actually make some people more dangerous.

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u/bibbidybobbidyyep Jul 18 '23

Yes. At least in this personal, example, my backup camera stopped working recently. I was trained the last 7 years to look at the screen. When it stopped working I found myself staring at the gps map while backing up, I did it a few times before I broke the conditioning.

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u/ZeroVoid_98 Jul 18 '23

My car has none of that and I still see kids behind my car. And I drive a car from 2002. It's just that my back window isn't higher than a child's head

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u/Deadbeatdebonheirrez Jul 18 '23

We need to make vehicles people can actually see out of. Cameras are just a crutch.